Policy Brief: - The Hiroshima G7 Summit

Policy Brief: The Hiroshima G7 Summit May 26, 2023 Insights for What’s Ahead: The leaders of the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and the European Union met in Hiroshima, Japan for the annual leaders’ summit, joined by key partners from around the world. [...] Instead, it has become a global event; this year, the G7 invited leaders from around the world, including Ukraine, Australia, Brazil, India (a Quad member and this year’s chair of the G20 group), Indonesia (representing the Association of Southeast Asian nations), South Korea, the Cook Islands (representing the Pacific Island Forum group of countries), the Comoros (representing the African Union),. [...] The President also agreed to train Ukrainian pilots in the operation of the F-16 fighter jet, signaling that the US would not use its power to ban export of the jets from European countries to Ukraine. [...] Quad Meeting – further pushback After the President canceled his planned visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia to focus on the debt ceiling negotiations, the leaders of the Quad—Australia, India, Japan, and the US—held their meeting on the sidelines of the G7 rather than in Australia. [...] The next major global gatherings will be the G20 meeting in hosted by India on September 9-10, the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco in November, and the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which the UAE will host from November 30 to December 12.